SCENE IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4701, 31 January 1884, Page 2

SCENE IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

The following is said to have occurred, during the burning of Charles town, at the commencement of. the/American RevbluV tion : In the general con.usion, while one portion of the town was on fire, a Scottish soldier of the Koyal Guard.burst open tha dcor of a house, and entering, met in an inner room a very beautiful woman, holding by the hand a child about five years old, and on her way to the chamber of her husband, for the purpose of assisting him to escape. The soldier, intoxicated by her beauty and brufolised by passion, violently seized the woman, notwithstanding her prayers and the screams of her child. The husband, who was on a sick bed above, bearing his daughter's cries, rose with difficulty, seiz;d a pistol, and dragging himself down the staircase shot the soldier through the body, who fell dead upon the floor.. What was his astonishment when, on looking at the face of the dead, he recognised . his own brother. The unfortunate man saw, at the same time, his fainting wife, his daughter in convulsions, and his brother's corpse. He exclaimed, "Good God! I have slain my brother,'>ndieU senseless. A soldier of th^fime regiment* who had followed his comrade, heard this; exclamation, and entered j«tt as the ftames, whioh had extended to tire house, were bursting through the wi(|s; cure assistance fftuCon returning,, found that it 1 was tob late to save aiij£ftlbg* The roof of the burning hoVTsev meanwhile, had fallen, and all the unlapgy family were burled in its ruitis. •" *' "'■ - •